State v. Jordan

PARKER, Judge.

Appellant contends that evidence of the result of chemical tests made by the State’s chemist in the Raleigh laboratory of the S.B.I. should have been excluded because there was not a sufficient showing of a “chain of identity” between the substance tested and the substance which the S.B.I. undercover agent testified he purchased from defendant in Nash County. The undercover agent testified that on the night of 31 January 1971 he paid defendant $120.00 and received in exchange a Marlboro cigarette pack containing thirty tinfoil packets, each of which contained a white powder…